Cloud Computing with e-Science Applications

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to all the professors and researchers who contributed to this, our first, book and to all those who provided support, talked things over, or read, wrote, and offered comments.

We thank all authors and their organizations that allowed sharing relevant studies of scientific applications in cloud computing and thank advisory board members Fatos Xhafa, Hamid R. Arabnia, Vassil Alexandrov, Pavan Balaji, Harold Enrique Castro Barrera, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael Gerhards, Khalid Mohiuddin, Philippe Navaux, Suraj Pandey, and Ioan Raicu for providing important comments to improve the book.

We wish to thank our research center, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, which allowed us to become researchers ...